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:.Daily News Briefing.:
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October 3, 2016 |
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www.samenacouncil.org
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Zain promotes Dr Arowojolu to Chief Regulatory Officer
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This important role within Zain Group will see Dr Andrew liaise with Regulatory Authorities across the company’s eight-country footprint, dealing with multiple issues including spectrum license terms and conditions as well as working with various industry bodies such as the GSMA and SAMENA Council...
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Ooredoo wins global award
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Ooredoo is also nominated for other significant awards at the event, including Social Media Campaign of the Year’ for the Supernet campaign and ‘Telecommunications Company of the Year...
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Microsoft boosts European cloud investment
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Microsoft intends to deliver the Microsoft Cloud from data centres in France, starting in 2017 with Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics 365 from multiple locations in France...
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Policy and Regulation
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- US gives up internet control to ICANN
The United States Department of Commerce and its National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) confirmed their management contract expired 30 September, leaving Icann under a new organisation model based on input from international stakeholders... Read More
- Trai’s arbitrary, and inexplicable, pricing to blame for failure of 700MHz auction
The failure of the auction in this band means over 70% of the total 2016 auction, by way of value based on the reserve price for various spectrum frequency bands, was rendered a non-starter... Read More
- Saudi telcos welcome new unified licensing system from CITC
The country’s communications and information technology commission extended the licences of all operators by 15 years, charging a fee of 5 per cent of annual net incomes... Read More
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South Asia
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- Telco survey across nations in Asia showing future career choices
The multi-market ‘Jobs of the Future’ survey obtained 4,200 respondents aged 15 to 25, in Pakistan, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Singapore, Malaysia... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- Telecoms operators blame poor services on 20 unapproved handsets
A major factor responsible for poor quality of telephony services is the import and use of unapproved mobile phones in Nigeria... Read More
- MTN’s purchase of Visafone said to be in doubt without spectrum
Africa’s biggest wireless carrier by sales is deciding whether acquiring the closely held company is worth it without the spectrum. The deal valued Lagos-based Visafone at about $220 million... Read More
- Algeria to launch communications satellite in 2017
The satellite Alcomsat1 will be launched before the end of June 2017 with the aim of strengthening the national sovereignty in the fields of telecommunications and broadcasting, of telephony and Internet... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- Vodafone tests 5G systems to help cars communicate
Many of the connected systems in cars help make them safer, but they are mostly reliant on embedded sensors rather than vehicle-to-vehicle communications. Vodafone’s 5G researchers hope to change that... Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- Facebook rolls out Messenger Lite in 5 countries
1 billon users worldwide use Messenger each month, a figure which is now looking to grow by adding users regardless of network conditions or storage limitations on their Android devices... Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- YouTube launches labelled video dataset
Video analysis provides even more information for detecting and recognising objects, and understanding human actions and interactions with the world, and that basically improving video understanding can lead to better video search and discovery... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- Verizon tells FCC to move fast on 28 GHz and 37-40 GHz bands
Mobile Future, an organization whose members include Verizon Communications and AT&T, also filed comments last week urging the commission to move forward to make additional spectrum above 24 GHz available for flexible use... Read More
- SKT and Qualcomm conduct LAA/eLAA over-the-air trial
The companies noted that demonstration used 2.6GHz of licensed spectrum and 5GHz of unlicensed spectrum. Having established a baseline using only Wi-Fi users, some of these were then switched from Wi-Fi to LAA/eLAA... Read More
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